ByBill Steigerwald, NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterMay 3, 2022 A new NASA Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United State… [+7612 chars]
Hot on the heels of the year's first solar eclipse — a partial eclipse on April 30 — a total lunar eclipse is on the horizon. Between the late evening of May 15 and the early morning of May 16, depe… [+2973 chars]
Astronomers are awaiting the summer day when the four instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope will take their first science data a moment decades in the making. On Thursday, NASA and ESA ann… [+4069 chars]
A young female bat weighing a quarter of an ounce has flown more than 1,500 miles from Russia to the French Alps, the longest bat flight ever recorded. The Nathusius pipistrelle bat bests the previo… [+4965 chars]
Palaeontologists have unearthed the fossilized skeletal remains of a long-extinct dog species, providing new information about the evolution of the mammal. The San Diego Union-Tribute reports that t… [+2970 chars]
May 3 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith According to a new study, there was a period of accelerated global climate change in an ice-capped world about 304 million years ago, similar to the present. In just… [+4638 chars]
What mysteries of the universe could the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator unlock? The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) near … [+16069 chars]
We live in a world made and run by RNA, the equally important sibling of the genetic molecule DNA. In fact, evolutionary biologists hypothesize that RNA existed and self-replicated even before the ap… [+8180 chars]
The left hand looks like the right hand in the mirror but the left-handed glove does not fit on the right hand. Chirality refers to this property where the object cannot be superimposed on to the mir… [+2862 chars]
While the moon's brightness may have obscured April Lyrid's meteor shower, stargazers will have another opportunity to spot meteors with the upcoming Eta Aquariids meteor shower, peaking at around 12… [+4474 chars]
A helicopter caught a falling rocket before its crew was forced to let it go again for safety reasons.Rocket Lab partially pulled off the feat as it pushes to make its small Electron rockets reusable… [+2115 chars]
Word of an extraordinarily inexpensive material, lightweight enough to protect satellites against debris in the cold of outer space, cohesive enough to strengthen the walls of pressurized vessels exp… [+7205 chars]
